Home Across the Road: A NovelPlanter Jennis Redd has a son by a slave and his wife sells it out of jealousy. So begins a multi-generation Southern saga of lust and betrayal featuring two lots of Redds, the white owners and the black servants. |
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User Review - KirkusAn amiable family saga set on a plantation in the Old and New South—replete with lust, theft, miscegenation, snobbery, betrayal, and many other traditional family values—by North Carolina novelist ... Read full review
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User Review - Not Available - Book VerdictChina Redd, great-granddaughter of a slave named Cally, has cooked and cleaned for the white branch of the Redd family for nearly 50 years, and the story she narrates is composed of much she was told ... Read full review
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| Title | Home Across the Road: A Novel |
| Author | Nancy Peacock |
| Publisher | Longstreet Press, 1999 |
| ISBN | 1563525097, 9781563525094 |
| Length | 249 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General Fiction / Literary |
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